Dear to me is sleep: still more, being made of stone, While pain and guilt still linger here below, Blindness and numbness--these please me alone; Then do not wake me, keep your voices low.

A man paints with his brains and not with his hands.

The greatest danger for most of us is not that our aim is too high and we miss it, but that it is too low and we reach it.

Your gifts lie in the place where your values, passions and strengths meet. Discovering that place is the first step toward sculpting your masterpiece, Your Life.

I saw the angel in the marble and carved until I set him free.

The greater danger for most of us lies not in setting our aim too high and falling short; but in setting our aim too low, and achieving our mark.

To know each other is the best way to understand each other. To understand each other is the only way to love each other.

I created a vision of David in my mind and simply carved away everything that was not David.

Do not fret, for God did not create us to abandon us.

If people knew how hard I worked to get my mastery, it wouldn't seem so wonderful at all.

Every block of stone has a statue inside it and it is the task of the sculptor to discover it.

When I read a novel my imagination starts off at a gallop and leaves the narrator hidden in a cloud of dust I have to come jogging twenty miles back to the denouement.

If a religion wants you to give up your freedom, just give up that religion! Nothing is holier than your freedom!

You are only in control of your choices.

Make good art. It doesn't matter what you do so long as you change something from the way it was before you touched it.

When we are forced to endure what we cannot endure, something breaks inside our minds. That broken-mindedness is commonly called trauma.

Success isn't everything but it makes a man stand straight.

I don't use the accident - 'cause I deny the accident

When I went to film school about three years ago, the first two years you're required to make a series of short films. I started making films based on short poems.

I didn't like the sound of people gasping at the mere mention of my name. It horrified me...

If you want to become something, achieve something in life, then always listen to your heart.